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Most development work on self-driving cars focuses on mundane things likegetting around parked carsandkeeping bugs off sensors, but what about speed? Roborace is trying to develop a racing series for autonomous cars, and has set aGuinness World Recordfor the world’s fastest self-driving car at 175.49 mph. Roborace’s autonomous race car, dubbedRobocar, made its record runs at Elvington Airfield in the United Kingdom, with Guinness adjudicators on hand. The attempt was made in March, but an official announcement was postponed to coincide with the publication of Guinness’ 2020 record book....

Update 11/18:Roku has released a fix for thePokémon SwordandShieldissue. Pokémon SwordandShield, which launched for the Nintendo Switch on November 15, is causing trouble in some players’ homes as the game is reportedly causing Roku devices to crash. The issue wasraisedby a Redditor who goes by the name MazInger-Z, who started a thread on the official sub-Reddit. He said that the Roku device in their house started acting up, and upon looking through social media, found many others who were suddenly experiencing the problem....

When purchasing a new Android phone, several essential factors must be considered. Do you prefer a large screen for watching videos and playing games? How important is camera performance, especially if you enjoy taking high-quality photos? Are you someone who enjoys gaming on your phone and requires a device with excellent performance? Or do you need long-lasting battery life to keep up with your busy schedule? This article aims to help you find the best Android phone that meets your specific needs in 2025....

Robot vacuums are one of the best ways to maintain the cleanliness of your home without having to drag out a traditional upright vac whenever the living room needs refreshing. Battery-powered, quick to clean, and easy to automate, robot vacs are fantastic for scheduled sweeps of your home, collecting the dirt and dust bunnies that we may not be able to attack until the weekend. One of the best features that mostrobot vacssport is the ability to link up with popular voice assistants....

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Boys season 4 premiere. Summary The Boysshowrunner Eric Kripke teases what’s happening inside Billy Butcher’s (Karl Urban) head at the end of the season 4 premiere. Prior to the premiere, it was established thatThe Boys' leader, Butcher, was terminally ill due to the side effects of Temp V. The serum is a modified version of Compound V, which gives users temporary superhuman abilities. Butcher exceeded the maximum dose recommended for the new drug and developed brain tumors from it....

Summary The First Omenis technically a prequel to Richard Donner’s 1976 classicThe Omen, but its demonic pregnancy storyline is much closer to a different horror movie masterpiece. Set in 1971,The First Omenrevolves around an American novitiate named Margaret Daino, who’s sent to work at an orphanage in Rome and ends up uncovering a sinister religious conspiracy. As it turns out, she’s the offspring of a jackal demon and she’s been earmarked by a cult to become the mother of the Antichrist....

The snazzy newGoogle Home Hubdoesn’t have a camera on it, ostensibly for privacy reasons but also possibly to downgrade the cost. Nevertheless, industry watchers at the company’s rollout of new hardware on October 8 in New York City called it strange — given that Google is pushingDuo video callingso hard on other speakers and smartphones. So in a weird twist this week,Android Policediscovered that the Home Hub will actually support video calls through Duo but with an odd caveat: You can see the person you’re calling if the device they’re receiving your Duo call on has a camera, but the recipient of your Duo call will only see your profile pic....

Summary The Legend of Korraset a perfect villain spinoff into motion with its third season, but it seems pretty unlikely that the creators of theAvatar: The Last Airbenderfranchise will deliver on that set up. A sequel to the originalATLAseries,The Legend of Korracenters on a new bridge between the human and spirit worlds. At first, Korra is an impulsive Avatar — someone who’s focused on physical might and much less in tune with her spiritual side....

“Fitbit, Apple, and Samsung haveset this expectation of what a wearable can do, and I think Movano, Oura, and other companies are going to start to redefine that over time.” This is according to Stacy Salvi. She’s Vice President of Strategy at health-focused technology companyMovanoand has seen firsthand how wearables have changed, having recently moved on after 15 years at wearable tech pioneer Fitbit. In an interview with Digital Trends, she spoke about how smart jewelry — and advancements in sensor technology, in particular — will push wearables forward in the near future....

Huawei has been at theforefront of folding smartphone designsince the very beginning, and its latest model, the Mate X3, shows the company hasn’t lost any of its drive to push the emerging hardware segment forward. Through clever use of new materials and design processes, the Mate X3 is the thinnest and lightest big-screen foldable released so far. It’s a hair over 11mm thick when closed up, 5.3mm when opened flat, and weighs 239 grams....

Summary The coming-of-age genre has seen a wide variety of approaches to the formula, ranging from the more lightheartedMy Girltothe Oscar-winningMoonlight, though they most typically take a grounded and straightforward route to the story. Then along comesTiger Stripes, thebody horror moviethat was Malaysia’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars following its acclaimed debut at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Melding gut-wrenching body horror with unique parallels between puberty and transformation, writer-director Amanda Nell Eu’s feature debut is thoughtful and intriguing, even if it doesn’t fully soar....

TikTok will soon join the list of social networks integrated into your favorite apps. On Monday, November 4,TikTok announcedTikTok for Developers, a software development kit (SDK) that allows third-party apps to add a TikTok shortcut for easy sharing to the popular network focused on short videos. The platform launches with seven apps already building a TikTok shortcut into the program,including mobile video editors like Adobe Premiere Rush, as well asPlotaverse, an app for turning still photos into GIF animations....

Free Radical Design, a studio reestablished to revive the long-dormant TimeSplitters series, was officially shut down by its parent company, Plaion, due to the ongoing financial struggles faced by Embracer Group, which owns both studios. TimeSplitters is a cult classic first-person shooter series from the early 2000s that has not received a new game since 2005 because its developer, Free Radical Design, went out of business. In 2018, Koch Media — now known as Plaion —acquired the TimeSplitters IP....